Citizenship and Its Discontents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizenship and Its Discontents write by Niraja Gopal Jayal. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Citizenship and Its Discontents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion. Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of citizenship as legal status, as rights, and as identity. The early optimism that a new India could be fashioned out of an unequal and diverse society led to a formally inclusive legal membership, an impulse to social and economic rights, and group-differentiated citizenship. Today, these policies to create a civic community of equals are losing support in a climate of social intolerance and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.
Citizenship in India
Citizenship in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizenship in India write by Anupama Roy. This book was released on 2016. Citizenship in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Citizenship is identified with an ideal condition of equality of status and belonging, it gets challenged in societies marked by inequalities. This short introduction describes the history of citizenship in India, before moving on to the pluralities and the contemporary landscapes of citizenship. It traces the amendments in the Citizenship Act, 1955 and argues that the legal enframing of the citizen involves a simultaneous production of its other-the non-citizen.
Mapping Citizenship in India
Mapping Citizenship in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Citizenship in India write by Anupama Roy. This book was released on 2010-10-18. Mapping Citizenship in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributing to the ongoing debates on citizenship, this book traces the Citizenship Act of India, 1955 from its inception, through the various amendments in 1986, 2003, and 2005. It includes detailed studies of other significant laws and judgments including the Abducted Persons (Recovery and Rehabilitation) Act (1949), and the Illegal Migrants Determination by Tribunals Act (1983) to show how citizenship unfolded among differentially located individuals, communities, and groups. The book argues that the citizenship laws in India show a steady movement towards the affirmation of citizenship's relationship with blood-ties and descent. The volume identifies amendments in the Citizenship Act as transitions which are framed by major historical choices and decisions. It examines the liminal categories of citizenship produced in the period between the commencement of the Constitution and the enactment of the Citizenship Act, which continue to make citizenship fraught with uncertainties and exclusions. Through a discussion of laws and judgments, the work also brings out the relationship between citizenship and migration in independent India, in particular in the wake of migration from Bangladesh and distress migration because of the breakdown of rural economies.
Citizenship of India
Citizenship of India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizenship of India write by Meher K. Master. This book was released on 1970. Citizenship of India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How India Became Democratic
How India Became Democratic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How India Became Democratic write by Ornit Shani. This book was released on 2018. How India Became Democratic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uncovers the greatest experiment in democratic history: the creation of the electoral roll and universal adult franchise in India.
